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File Created: 24-Jul-1985 by BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:  20-Dec-1991 by Peter S. Fischl (PSF)

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NMI
Name VERMILION BLUFFS Mining Division Similkameen
BCGS Map 092H048
Status Showing NTS Map 092H07E
Latitude 049º 26' 41'' UTM 10 (NAD 83)
Longitude 120º 33' 29'' Northing 5479762
Easting 677006
Commodities Agate, Gemstones Deposit Types Q03 : Agate
Tectonic Belt Intermontane Terrane Overlap Assemblage, Quesnel
Capsule Geology

Agate is hosted in andesite and basalt of the Eocene Princeton Group, on both banks of the Tulameen River, 3 kilometres west-southwest of Princeton. The agate is sometimes bluish in colour. Farther west, on the northeast side of the river, agate occurs in seams with white plume.

Bibliography
GSC MAP 569A; 888A; 1386A; 41-1989
GSC MEM 243
GSC P 72-53, pp. 18-20; 85-1A, pp. 349-358
Bulletin of the Lapidary Rock and Mineral Society of B.C., *May, 1959
Western Homes and Living, Oct., 1961

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